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The City of Beautiful Nonsense
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The City of Beautiful Nonsense
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353 Pages. Compete and Unabridged!
"A beautiful bit of work, full of delicacy and discernment, with touches here and there of that happier mood of idealistic sweetness from which your stern, unbending realist is so logically adverse. It is a book well-worth reading." —The Daily Telegraph
"In 'The City of Beautiful Nonsense' Mr. Thurston surpasses his former achievements as a writer of idyllic romance.... It is quite simple in construction and delicate in theme... we cannot do better than advise everyone who has not yet grown entirely old at heart to take a journey to 'The City of Beautiful Nonsense.' " —The Daily Graphic
"The story is fresh, modern and human.... Touched with the skill of the pen that made 'Sally Bishop' so vivid, and the object is worthier." —The Observer
"A very charming love-story told with skill and attraction and very delightfully."
—Daily Express
"This charming, whimsical novel is an original love-story. That is a large claim, but it is justified by the facts.... The book is full of humour and the love of surprise.... The book of a man with a fine nature." —Outlook
"Probably this is the best thing Mr. Thurston has yet done... a true romance built up on a novel basis and well told. Fanciful in idea it is yet full of sparkle, alternated with real sentiment, and, finally it is pervaded with a bright sense of humour... It is a good, straightforward, honest novel." —Ladies' Field
"Whimsical fancy, delicate, humoursome, and, in the end, poetically beautiful in a pensive mood, gives a constant grace to this oddly charming novel by E. Temple Thurston. I have lingered over it With peculiar pleasure, not so much on account of the refined cleverness with which it is written, as for a true enjoyment of its brave if tearful philosophy, the persuasive charms of its make-believe, and the understanding way in which it deals with quixotic impulses and habits." —Dundee Advertiser
"Fantastic, gay, whimsical and tender, the story winds along, sunshine and shadow flitting through its pages with delightful variety.... The delicate imagination in which Mr. Thurston has woven his story is charming... this sweet, wholesome, dainty love-story."
— Manchester Courier
"Unquestionably this is a charming book—the characters, the atmosphere, and the story have all a delicate grace which is indescribable.... It is pure romance, innocent fancy, 'beautiful nonsense' indeed." — Birmingham Post
"Mr. Thurston's book is a pretty love-story, prettily told, and with a conclusion which is not only dramatic but finely quintessential of the delicate odours of romance, sentiment, chivalry, and longing; that wander to and fro amid the charmingly written pages."
—Glasgaw Herald
"A beautiful bit of work, full of delicacy and discernment, with touches here and there of that happier mood of idealistic sweetness from which your stern, unbending realist is so logically adverse. It is a book well-worth reading." —The Daily Telegraph
"In 'The City of Beautiful Nonsense' Mr. Thurston surpasses his former achievements as a writer of idyllic romance.... It is quite simple in construction and delicate in theme... we cannot do better than advise everyone who has not yet grown entirely old at heart to take a journey to 'The City of Beautiful Nonsense.' " —The Daily Graphic
"The story is fresh, modern and human.... Touched with the skill of the pen that made 'Sally Bishop' so vivid, and the object is worthier." —The Observer
"A very charming love-story told with skill and attraction and very delightfully."
—Daily Express
"This charming, whimsical novel is an original love-story. That is a large claim, but it is justified by the facts.... The book is full of humour and the love of surprise.... The book of a man with a fine nature." —Outlook
"Probably this is the best thing Mr. Thurston has yet done... a true romance built up on a novel basis and well told. Fanciful in idea it is yet full of sparkle, alternated with real sentiment, and, finally it is pervaded with a bright sense of humour... It is a good, straightforward, honest novel." —Ladies' Field
"Whimsical fancy, delicate, humoursome, and, in the end, poetically beautiful in a pensive mood, gives a constant grace to this oddly charming novel by E. Temple Thurston. I have lingered over it With peculiar pleasure, not so much on account of the refined cleverness with which it is written, as for a true enjoyment of its brave if tearful philosophy, the persuasive charms of its make-believe, and the understanding way in which it deals with quixotic impulses and habits." —Dundee Advertiser
"Fantastic, gay, whimsical and tender, the story winds along, sunshine and shadow flitting through its pages with delightful variety.... The delicate imagination in which Mr. Thurston has woven his story is charming... this sweet, wholesome, dainty love-story."
— Manchester Courier
"Unquestionably this is a charming book—the characters, the atmosphere, and the story have all a delicate grace which is indescribable.... It is pure romance, innocent fancy, 'beautiful nonsense' indeed." — Birmingham Post
"Mr. Thurston's book is a pretty love-story, prettily told, and with a conclusion which is not only dramatic but finely quintessential of the delicate odours of romance, sentiment, chivalry, and longing; that wander to and fro amid the charmingly written pages."
—Glasgaw Herald
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